During the week, we consume words in snackable, tweetable bites. But on the weekends, we have the time to take a dive into the murkier, lengthier depths of the Internet and expand our attention spans beyond 140 characters. We can brew a cup of coffee...

Shaken by the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School and determined to prevent future tragedies, a team of high school students in Washington, D.C., has invented a new locking device for classroom doors. They hope the device can keep students and t...

An online card for Sandy Hook Elementary shooting victims on activism platform Causes has amassed a huge number of online signatures. More than 1 million people have signed the Sandy Hook Elementary School National Sympathy Card, which is now the lar...

Following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Friday, Liza Long wrote on her blog, The Anarchist Soccer Mom, about her experience raising a mentally ill son. The post went viral under the title "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother" (originally called "...

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